In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

War is an option of difficulties.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums

Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass.

Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

You don't have to wear a sparkly dress all the time! You can wear something that's plain, really, it's okay. No one is going to be mad at you.

Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.